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The Global Problem: Monetary Policy Can’t Fix an Economy’s Structural Problems
The Global Problem: Monetary Policy Can’t Fix an Economy’s Structural Problems When we look back from 2025, it will be painfully obvious that central bank policies exacerbated the systemic crises that brought down the global financialization machine. What with all the praise being heaped on central banks for “saving” the world from economic doomsday in […]
One Last Look At The Real Economy Before It Implodes – Part 1
One Last Look At The Real Economy Before It Implodes – Part 1 We are only two months into 2015, and it has already proven to be the most volatile year for the economic environment since 2008-2009. We have seen oil markets collapsing by about 50 percent in the span of a few months (just […]
JANET YELLEN IS A COWARD
JANET YELLEN IS A COWARD Headline: Yellen Is Loathe To Change Easy Money Policy With her diminutive stature, dutch-boy haircut and puffy facial features Janet Yellen certainly does not look like a leader…more like a Brooklyn grandmother eager to tell you her special recipe for chocolate chip cookies. In this case, unfortunately, her appearance does […]
Housing Industry Frets About the Next Brick to Drop
Housing Industry Frets About the Next Brick to Drop Cashing out of the “Bet on America” might get messy. Stephen Schwarzman, CEO and co-founder of Blackstone Group, the world’s largest private-equity firm with $290 billion in assets under management, made $690 million for 2014 via a mix of dividends, compensation, and fund payouts, according to a regulatory […]
BREAKING BAD (DEBT) – EPISODE ONE
BREAKING BAD (DEBT) – EPISODE ONE “At this juncture, the impact on the broader economy and financial markets of the problems in the subprime market seems likely to be contained.” – Fed chairman, Ben Bernanke, Congressional testimony, March, 2007 “Capitalism without financial failure is not capitalism at all, but a kind of socialism for the rich.” –James Grant, […]
10 Reasons Washington Has War Fever
10 Reasons Washington Has War Fever “War is merely the continuation of policy by other means.” – Carl von Clausewitz The political elites, Federal Reserve and special interests that really run the show hiding behind Congress and the president of either party in America’s closed two-party monopoly seem to be running scared in many regards. […]
Kick-The-Can Has Morphed Into A Blatant Farce
Kick-The-Can Has Morphed Into A Blatant Farce Kick-the-can has morphed into a blatant farce. Everywhere in the world central banks and financial officialdom are engaging in desperate, juvenile maneuvers to buy time—–amounting to hardly a few weeks at a go. Never before has the debt-saturated, speculation-ridden global casino rested upon such a precarious foundation. This week, for instance, Janet Yellen […]
Forget The $1 Trillion Platinum Coin–Here’s the $10 Trillion Stone Coin
Forget The $1 Trillion Platinum Coin–Here’s the $10 Trillion Stone Coin The point I’m making with the $10 trillion stone coin is that if money is a social contrivance, then it should be distributed to those creating goods and services. You’ve probably heard of the $1 trillion platinum coin proposal: the basic idea is the U.S. Mint issues […]
Federal Reserve Insider Alan Greenspan Warns: There Will Be a “Significant Market Event… Something Big Is Going To Happen”
Federal Reserve Insider Alan Greenspan Warns: There Will Be a “Significant Market Event… Something Big Is Going To Happen” With the Federal Reserve printing trillions upon trillions of dollars to keep the economic system afloat, many investors and financial pundits have surmised that the fundamental economic problems facing the United States during the crash of […]
Central Banks Have Lost Control Of The World
Central Banks Have Lost Control Of The World With the world’s oldest central bank – Sweden’s Riksbank – taking the plunge into negative rates, there have been 19 ‘eases’ by central banks this year, Morgan Stanley warns of “ghosts of the 1930s.” With competitive ‘easing’ stoking fears of international currency wars,The Telegraph notes however that looser monetary policy is […]
Reckless Stock-Market Leverage Intoxicates Politicians
Reckless Stock-Market Leverage Intoxicates Politicians The sudden bloodletting that leveraged currency speculators experienced when the Swiss National Bank yanked the cap on the franc should have been a warning: central-bank promises that everything is under control are meaningless. And because of leverage, innumerable trading accounts blew up in a matter of moments. Leverage acts like […]
David Stockman Interview: The Global Economy Has Entered The Crack-Up Phase
David Stockman Interview: The Global Economy Has Entered The Crack-Up Phase Transcript of David Stockman’s Interview By Chris Martenson at Peak Prosperity Chris Martenson: Welcome to this Peak Prosperity podcast. I am your host, Chris Martenson. It’s a central banker world and that world is increasingly volatile, deformed, and full of risks. Today, we’re speaking with […]
West Coast Ports Shut Down For Holiday Weekend: Supply Chain Halt Threatens Havoc On Reeling Economy
West Coast Ports Shut Down For Holiday Weekend: Supply Chain Halt Threatens Havoc On Reeling Economy A week ago, when we wrote “Catastrophic Shutdown Of America’s Supply Chain Looms” As West Coast Port Worker Talks Break Down“, few people noticed… as was to be expected: after all with January’s retails sales just around the corner, […]
Second Thoughts On US Official Gold Reserves Audits
Second Thoughts On US Official Gold Reserves Audits What is not often covered in the media or blogosphere are the audits of the US official gold reserves stored at the US Mint, which is the custodian for 95 % (7716 tonnes) of the stash – nowadays also referred to as custodial deep storage, and at the Federal […]
Here’s a $9 Trillion Question
Here’s a $9 Trillion Question (Bloomberg) — When Group of 20 finance ministers this week urged the Federal Reserve to “minimize negative spillovers” from potential interest-rate increases, they omitted a key figure: $9 trillion. That’s the amount owed in dollars by non-bank borrowers outside the U.S., up 50 percent since the financial crisis, according to […]
